Building a Beach House in the Philippines - The Finished Product & Tour!

We know it has been awhile since we have uploaded a video to our channel, and we have had a lot of requests to show the finished product and the complete tour even before it was finished. It took us awhile to upload as we were so caught up with the ongoing construction, and just needed a break and to concentrate on finishing our beach house and to make it our home.

Since we started building our beach house, we had a lot of requests to upload the house tour. As you all know, we first built the second floor of the house where our bedroom is, then later, the first floor where the kitchen, rest room (or what the Filipinos call CR which stands for Comfort Room), and living room. We did upload the video for that part, and if you haven't seen it yet, please do watch it. 

We did not plan on building the first floor (we rented a house in the city), not until our flights back to US were cancelled last year due to the pandemic surge. We loved living here by the beach rather than in the city where we rented a house, and so we decided to just make it a whole house. It is actually no-brainer to just have a place to call our own than just rent and spend half of the week between here at the beach and in the city. We are very glad to finally get over renting and just settling in one place. On January this year, our lease with the rental was up, and so we moved here while construction was still in process. It was stressful at times, more often than not, but it was all worth it. Now, we fell in love with the place where we are currently living. Although there are sacrifices like the scarcity of water (it comes late at night, and is gone early in the morning), far from the city where we have to deliver our laundry, do our grocery shopping, and even the storms that are terrifying at times, but the joy of being by the ocean and to hear the calming sounds of the waves crashing on the beach, feel the coolness breeze, and be around the family, outweighs the cons. 

I know that the number one question that we are going to be asked is, "how much did this cost you?". The current estimated cost (labor and materials, etc.), so far, is ₱800,000./$16545.60. If you compare that to our monthly rent in the city at ₱18,000/$372.28 and times that by 12 months, ₱216,000/$4,467.31. That doesn't include the utility bills that was way more than we are paying here. We are now living rent-free and stress-free. 

We are looking forward to uploading more videos soon, but be patient as the internet here on the beach is somewhat unpredictable. 

Thanks everyone! We hope to see you on the next one.